Unexpected currency change in a report between two copies of Gnucash on
different machines
Conclusion
If you keep books in multiple currencies, make reports in multiple
currencies, and also sync your preferences folder (and hence your saved
reports) between machines, then you should probably make sure you have the
same 'default currency' preferences settings in all copies of Gnucash, in
particular the
General Preference>Reports>Default Report Currency setting (Locale or
Choose)
This setting affects the displayed currency even in reports you have already
made and set to a currency in the report's individual Options while working
in one copy of Gnucash. It is a local preference specific to one copy of
Gnucash/one machine and is not stored in the same folder as the other
preferences (and the saved reports).
This is not mentioned in the online help, presumably because syncing of the
preferences folder is outside the scope of normal usage, see Help> Report
Preferences
<https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v3/C/gnucash-help/set-prefs.html#prefs-reports>
Problem experienced
I am now keeping two sets of books, one each for local transactions in each
of two countries/currencies.
I am /also/ syncing my Gnucash Preferences folder between two machines using
a sync service like Dropbox (mine is pCloud). Although this syncs many
preferences and the Saved Reports, there are still local user preferences
that are specific to each machine.
I created some reports in one or other currency and saved them. After
syncing, the reports showed up in Gnucash on both machines. But opening them
had different effects.
I had set the Report Currency I preferred for each report in Report Options
(Commodities>Report's currency) and I expected that would remain constant
between different copies of GnuCash.
However, I discovered that a Report set in Options to show Currency 1 could
open in Currency 2 on the second machine. Additionally, if I then corrected
the displayed currency (using Report Options) on Machine 2 then, after
preferences syncing, the same report would now show the 'wrong/other'
currency when opened back on the first machine.
I was surprised to discover that the machine-specific Gnucash Preferences
setting
Reports>Report Default Currency
was affecting the currency displayed in a Saved Report.
The changing currencies problems only happens when reports are synced and
then opened in copies of Gnucash running with different values of Report
Default Currency. In other words, this preference setting can affect
reports, even after they have been created.
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